We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLS
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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